Look out, Zipcar: Car-sharing Carpingo’s in town!
“Check us out and unzip yourself,” says an ad for the new Brooklyn-based car-sharing service, Carpingo, which launched last week.
“We’re a hometown local service,” owner Gil Cygler, a board member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, told the Brooklyn Eagle. “We’re from Brooklyn, we want to cooperate with the local merchants and the local community.”
Carpingo, which celebrated its launch last week in a ceremony outside Borough Hall, has cars — all 2012 mid-sized domestic and foreign models — in 13 Brooklyn neighborhoods.